Midweek marginalia

I’m not sure if it’s because Monday’s post mentioned “depressing” or if the spambots finally caught up with the review of the Lee Morgan biography that refers to his drug addiction. In either event, the comments here have been flooded with pharmaceutical spam. I would wager that over the last day or so I’ve deleted more than 300 spam comments mentioning dealing largely with prescription narcotics and a diet drug. Here’s some linkage that doesn’t require drug usage.

The Crooked Timber blog posts a conversation between its Henry Farrell and unique SF/F author China Mieville about Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, one of the finalists for the NBCC award for fiction.

While many of us are familiar with the governments named in George Orwell’s 1984, someone was dedicated enough to come up with a map of the world as it would look in that novel. (Via Kottke.org Remaindered Links.)